Bilbo finally avoided the orcs, but he didn't know where he was.

He lost his cloak, hood, food, pony, buttons and all his friends - the old saying often says, "People will cherish it only after they are lost." Perhaps this sentence is true, for example, now, Bilbo misses the days when they have them...

The lonely and poor Hobbit could only continue to move forward aimlessly until the sun began to set westward into the mountains. The shadow of the mountains fell on Bilbo, and he looked back curiously, then looked at the slope leading to a large plain, with only a few sparse trees in the middle as embellishments.

"God!" he said: "I seemed to have passed through the Mist Mountains and came to the other side of the mountain! Oh my god, the Dwarf and Gandalf are not sure where? I just hope they will not be in the orcs' sphere of influence!"

Continue to move forward aimlessly, crossing the narrow valley, walking to the end, and walking down the slope, but he always feels something is wrong: Since he has found this magic ring, should he go back to the terrifying dark tunnel to find friends?

Just as he made up his mind and decided to take responsibility for it and go back to find his dwarf friends who were likely lost in the complex underground tunnels that stretched dozens of miles across the Mist Mountains, he suddenly heard a sound.

Bilbo stopped and listened carefully to all the sounds coming from his ears

It didn't sound like a half-orc, so he walked forward carefully. He was stepping on a rocky path, with a rock wall on the left and a slope leading down on the other side; from above, you could see many shrubs and low plants in the valley below. Beneath the bushes in one of the valleys, there were voices of conversation.

After diving closer, I saw a head wearing a red hood through the gap between the big rocks: that was Bahrain, who was responsible for standing guard.

Bilbo almost clapped his hands and screamed happily, but he held back. He was worried that he would encounter any bad situation again, and he was wearing a ring on his hand - the magical ring that gave him wonderful invisibility!

Therefore, although the dwarf Bahrain looked in his direction, he found nothing.

"I'll give them a surprise!" he thought, while quietly approaching the bushes in the valley. Gandalf was arguing with the dwarves, discussing what happened in the tunnel, and trying to decide what to do next. The dwarves were complaining, while Gandalf insisted that if Mr. Baggins was still in the hands of the orcs, they should not continue to move forward, at least they must determine his life and death, or even rescue him.

"He is my friend after all," said the wizard. "He is not a bad guy either. I have a responsibility to him. I really hope you haven't lost him."

The dwarves wanted to know why they brought him here, why he could not act with friends, and why the wizard did not choose a more common sense partner.

"He has caused more trouble so far than he has helped," Bilbo heard only one of the Dwarf Expeditions complaining: "If we have to go back to the complex tunnel to find him, I suggest let fate decide his life and death."

Gandalf replied angrily: "I brought him here, and I will never bring useless people to adventure. If you don't help me, you can do it yourself. You can find a way to solve these problems yourself. As long as we can find him, you will definitely be grateful to me in the end. Dori, why did you throw him away?"

"If an orc suddenly catches you in the dark, trips you up, and kicks you on the back," Dwarf Dori defended: "You will throw him down too!"

"Then why didn't you pick him up?"

"Oh my God! You're so embarrassed to ask! The orcs were snatching and biting in the dark, and everyone rolled on the ground, ramming around! You almost cut off my head with the enemy fencing, and Thorin was wielding the beast and stabbing the sword. Then, you suddenly emitted that dazzling light, and we saw the orcs wailing away. You shouted, "Everyone comes with me!" Everyone should follow you. We also thought everyone had done this. You also knew that there was no time to figure it out. We then killed the guards all the way, rushed out of the gate, and hid here. Now we can only fall here, and even the thief is gone, so let him ask for blessings!"

"The thief is here!" Bilbo walked among the crowd and took off his ring.

Wow, everyone jumped higher than the other!

Then they began to cheer in surprise. Gandalf was as surprised as everyone else, but probably happier. He called Bahrain back and asked him how the sentinel could make people walk to him silently.

In fact, after this incident, the dwarves looked at Bilbo even more differently; even though they had doubts about his identity as a top thief under Gandalf's guarantee, they have now disappeared. Bahrain is the most innocent of them, but everyone thinks this is Bilbo's superb skill.

Indeed, Bilbo looked fluttering under their praise, snickering in his heart, not mentioning the ring. When they asked him how he did it, he said, "Oh, you just have to walk over very carefully and very quietly."

"This is the first time in history that someone can walk carefully and quietly through me, and I haven't noticed it yet! This is not even the most agile thief I've ever seen!" Bahrain said: "I take off my hat and pay tribute to you."

The old but wise old dwarf lowered his head and took off his hat and saluted Bilbo in convincingly.

"Balim is waiting for your order!" he said.

"Mr. Baggins serves you!" Bilbo replied.

They all wanted to know the adventure after Bilbo separated from them, so he sat down and told everything - of course, he deliberately concealed the process of finding the ring.

The dwarf companions were particularly interested in the puzzle game, and they shuddered at the Gulu in his description.

"At that time he sat down beside me, I could not think of any puzzle," Bilbo said at the end, "so, I said, 'What's in my pocket?' He guessed three times, and he couldn't guess it. So in the end I said, "You promised me before and took me out!" But he rushed over and wanted to kill me, and I turned and ran away, missing out with him in the dark. Then I followed him forward, because I heard him talking to himself, and he thought I knew the way out and was heading in that direction. Then he sat down at the entrance of the way out, and I couldn't get through for a moment; in the end, I had to jump over his head and escape from the gate."

"What should you do with those guards?" the dwarves asked curiously: "Didn't you meet them?"

"Oh, there are so many! It's so scary, but I can't hide from it. At that time, the door was only opened with a crack, and I was stuck at the door, and many buttons were removed," Bilbo looked at the torn clothes sadly. "But at least I escaped, so that I could stand in front of everyone."

The dwarf looked at him with a more respectful look than before, while Bilbo described in a relaxed tone of evading the guards, skipping Gollum and squeezing out the door, as if all this was easy.

"Look, didn't I tell you?" Gandalf said with a smile: "Mr. Baggins has a stronger strength than you think." When he said this, he showed a strange expression to Bill Bo.

The clever Hobbit couldn't help but begin to wonder whether the smart Gandalf had guessed that the truth he deliberately concealed during this process.

Then, it was his turn to ask the question. Even though Gandalf had explained all this to the dwarves before, Bilbo still wanted to know how the wizards escaped and what they experienced in between.

To be honest, the wizard did not mind repeatedly describing his wisdom, so he began to explain to Bilbo: He had discovered signs of evil orcs in this area long before this.

However, in the past, the main entrance of the Orc army was in another direction, and the road was easier to walk. They often caught travelers who were accidentally approaching at night. It was obvious that people stopped walking that road later. The Orcs built a new door next to the passage at the top of the mountain. This should have happened recently, because until now, no one has heard of this entrance.

"I have to see if I can find a kind-hearted giant to block the door again," Gandalf said. "Otherwise, this area will soon disappear."

At first, Gandalf heard Bilbo's screams, and realized what was going on. At the moment when the flash of the killing of the orcs came out, he seized the opportunity to slip in before the crack was closed. He followed the soldiers all the way to the vicinity of the hall, and then he sat down and began to prepare for the most powerful magic in the dark.

“That’s a memorable experience,” he said. “You must escape after one hit!”

Of course, Gandalf would not be stumped by such trivial matters. He had special research on the magic of flames and light. Therefore, the Hobbits have always been obsessed with the fireworks performances at the Old Tukshi Sora banquet.

We have heard of the others, the only exception is that Gandalf knows the back door, the lower door in the mouth of the orcs, where Bilbo lost all his buttons. In fact, anyone who knows the terrain of this area knows that there is this exit, but only the wizard can keep calm in the tunnel and lead them in the right direction.

"They built this gate many years ago, partly providing escape routes when needed, partly providing access to other areas; they will still attack in the darkness, causing great harm to the area. They guarded the nearby entrances and exits closely, and no one could block the road; after this lesson, they will definitely strengthen their defense." Gandalf said with a laugh.

The others laughed happily. Although they suffered heavy losses, they at least killed the orcs in the lead and many enemies, and they all escaped safely; so far, the adventure has been quite successful.

However, the words of the wizards woke them up. "Since we have all rested enough, we must set out immediately," he said. "After the night falls, hundreds of orcs will come out to hunt us down. Now the sky is getting darker; even after we leave for a long time, they can still smell the scent of our footprints. We must try to stay away from here before dark. If we are lucky, there should be moonlight tonight. They don't care much about the moonlight, but it is more convenient for us to have moonlight illumination."

"Oh, yes!" He answered more questions from the Hobbit in one fell swoop: "You are in the orc's cave, and we were captured on Monday night or early Tuesday morning. We walked very far away, crossed the center of the mountains, and now we are on the other side. This is a very convenient shortcut, but it is a distance from the originally planned road. We are too northerly and there will be a rough road ahead. Our current terrain is still very high, so let's go quickly!"

"I'm so hungry!" Bilbo suddenly realized that they hadn't eaten for two or three days. Think about it, how much torment this was for the Hobbit! After the previous tension and excitement ended, he realized that his stomach was roaring with hunger and his legs couldn't help but start to tremble.

"There's no way," said Gandalf, "unless you want to go back, ask the orcs to kindly return the luggage and ponies to you."

"Thank you for your advice!" said Bilbo.

"Okay, then we can only tighten our belts and continue moving forward. Otherwise, we will have to be made into dinner by the other party, which is much worse than not eating dinner!"

As they were rushing non-stop, Bilbo looked around, hoping to find something to eat, but the blackberries were just beginning to bloom, not to mention the fruits of hawthorn. He found some non-toxic leaves and started chewing them. He drank some mountain spring water while crossing the river and ate a few wild berry found on the shore, but this was just a drop in the water and could not extinguish the raging fire in his belly.

They continued to move forward, and the rugged roads disappeared, and the bushes, long grass, rocks, thyme, sagebills, fragrant mint, and rock roses all disappeared. They found themselves on a slope full of falling rocks, which must be the remains of the landslide. When they began to walk down, small stones kept rolling down, and soon, larger pieces of gravel were disturbed and fell; soon after, the entire hillside fell into a commotion, and the slopes above and below their heads seemed to begin to move. Everyone was panicked and hugged each other in fear, and watched themselves and the entire hillside slip down in a mess and a shocking loud noise.
Chapter completed!